Mali

Dubai Cares has adopted an innovative multi-partner approach in Mali, designed to leverage and ensure a sustainable and impactful intervention. While the implementation of the program will be managed directly by individual partnership members, the partnership will ensure efficient and effective interagency learning and knowledge-sharing as well as evidence-based monitoring of strategic impact of WASH-in-Schools.

UNICEF

Dubai Cares is providing basic sanitation and environmental facilities to ensure a healthy and adequate learning environment, notably by enabling school children and staff to access appropriate and clean toilets. As part of the program, Dubai Cares is:

Providing water and soap for hand washing at critical times (i.e. after going to the toilet and before handling food)

Providing safe drinking water from a protected groundwater source (spring, well or borehole), or from a treated supply

Promoting hygiene to enhance children’s knowledge of the importance of hygiene and a clean school environment, and to promote behavior change for the adoption of safe hygiene practices

Establishing School Management, Operation & Maintenance as well as Evaluation & Monitoring frameworks so that optimal conditions for the long term can be achieved in a sustainable way

Oxfam GB

With Oxfam GB, Dubai Cares is providing safe water, sanitation facilities and hygiene education to 100 primaryschools in the Koulikoro and Gao regions of Mali. The program also aims to create a school environment that is more conducive to learning and influences behavior changes in the wider communities. The program researches and pilotsthe use of low cost water supply technologies, which the Malian government and other stakeholders may replicate in the future.

Save the Children

With Save the Children, Dubai Cares is focusing on the following WASH components:

Providing low-cost and sustainable technologies for water and sanitation facilities at schools

Promoting positive hygiene behaviors and social change among program participants

Creating an enabling environment through capacity building of local community-based organizations and local government

Building an evidence base for advocacy

WaterAid

Together with WaterAid, Dubai Cares is targeting 5 communes across Koulikoro and the capital city Bamako. Both organizations are promoting low-cost sanitation technologies, conducting research, identifying solutions and leading cross program learning and knowledge-sharing.

CARE

In partnership with CARE, Dubai Cares is:

Promoting behavior change on sanitation and hygiene using the community-led total sanitation approach witha special focus on schools

Reinforcing changes in behavior nationally and at schools

Building capacity of government and building supply chains

Mobilizing provision of water points and washrooms

Advocating at local and national levels for policy change or enforcement